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Essential Acoustic Percussion
 Essential Acoustic Percussion offers nearly one gigabyte (24-bit versions) of the most popular percussive instruments and rhythms found in pop, rock, folk and country music today. Whether you're adding color to a full production, need light accompaniment for an acoustic project, or if you're just looking for some cool inspiration to write to, Essential Acoustic Percussion delivers liked a seasoned session player.
This isn't just some percussionist gone crazy. These are solid acoustic performances that you will want to use in real songs. In addition to staples like tambourine, shakers and ethnic drums, we have included some of the distinctive hand snare and sticks-on-rim grooves that are showing up in today's country tunes.
Listen Now to Previews Below
18 different percussion and myriad rhythms -- almost 800 loops -- designed to add variety, interest and depth to your tracks: basket shaker, bongos, claves, congas, cowbell, djembe, egg shaker, fruit shaker, hand snare, soft shaker, mega shaker, One Shot® shaker, pop tambourine, seed pods, sticks, thin tambourines, tiny tambourine and tube shaker. Unique two-handed shaker combinations are included as well.
Build Lifelike Tracks Quickly
Organized by instrument and tempo with easy-to-follow file names, you can quickly identify the instrument and rhythm you need for quick placement into your songs. And the different rhythms, alternates and naming system make it easy to mix and layer different instruments to build virtually unlimited combinations -- tracks that build and change like a real performance. Loop name extensions include time-saving identifiers such as core note rhythm, main or alternate variation, shuffle and combo (for dual instruments). See more info in the recording notes section box at right.
ONLY $49.95
KEY FEATURES INCLUDE
• 775 loops -- 991 megs on 2 CDs (24-bit versions)
•Versatile crossover percussion for pop, rock, folk, country and world
•Royalty Free
•Tempos include 60, 90, 120 and 150.
•4/4 straight and 4/4 shuffles
•4th-, 8th-, 16th- & Triplet-8th-Note Core Rhythms
•Stereo miking and tracks for panning color and more control
•Quick and easy organization
•Mix and match feels for extensive layering
•Totally dry
•Available in 16- or 24-bit Acidized WAVs, Apple Loops (24-bit) or REX2 formats.
Mixed Examples
Because the possibilities are virtually endless, we've just offered a few mixed examples of combined drum loops to showcase the wide range of sounds and rhythms possible with Essential Acoustic Percussion. Please note that they are totally dry and there are some artifacts due to MP3 quality. Click on the demo links below for MP3 samples (about 300k each). Note: These are MP3s and will not play with some versions of Windows Media Player. You need an MP3 player.
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INDIVIDUAL LOOPS IN MIX |
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Egg Shaker, Thin Tambourine, Djembe, Clave |
120
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4/4
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Thin Tambourine, Tiny Tambourine, DOD |
111
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4/4
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Hand Snare, Fruit Shaker, Cowbell |
090
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4/4
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LP Soft Shaker, One Shot Hits, Pop Tambourine |
150
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4/4
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Soft Shaker, Pop Tambourine |
120
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4/4
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Pop Tambourine, Sticks, Hand Snare, DOD, BOD |
120
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4/4 Shuf.
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Djembe, Baskets Combo |
060
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4/4
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Sticks, Pop Tambourine, Djembe |
150
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4/4
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Pop Tambourines, Egg Shaker, Hand Snare |
120
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4/4
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One Shot Combos, Clave, Thin Tamb., Congas, DOD, BOD |
100
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4/4
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Baskets, Bongo, Sticks |
060
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4/4
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Sticks, Pop Tambourine, DOD |
130 |
4/4 |
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Mega Shaker, Tiny Tambourine, Tube Shaker |
120
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4/4
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Conga, Tiny Tambourine, Fruit Shaker |
060
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4/4
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DOD USER
MATT LOPEZ
Nashville Songwriter
 “Essential Acoustic Percussion is a must have!
Adding hand percussion to a song brings so much more to the mix, but when I track demos here in Nashville, I usually don't have the extra budget to add a percussionist to my list of session players. Some drummers might bring a shaker or a tambourine, and are willing to lay a pass down as an overdub if asked, but it is always a bit of a pain.
With this new EAP volume added to my library of Drums On Demand products, I can now add all the hand percussion I want during mix time; which is very easy to do.
This stuff is also very cool to write to. It inspires some great groves to get a song off the ground. Keep 'em coming
guys."
Recording Notes
Essential Acoustic Percussion was recorded with a pair of AKG C460 small diaphragm condenser microphones through a Vintech 473 preamp.
Congas and bongos are spread with a drum on each side; two-handed shaker combinations are stereo with a shaker on each side, while single shakers and similar items are pretty much equal in both sides. You can spread wide or make mono either by panning to one side or the other, or by using only one side or the other of the stereo track.
Ethnic drums are stereo with the top of the drum on one side and the bottom on the other, so the tonality of the drum can be effected by changing the balance from one side towards the other.
The tambourines and cowbell have the left side closer and the right side a bit roomier, so the perception of distance can be manipulated by changing the balance of the left and right side.
Two different perspectives of the same source allow you to place a sound source deep into one side of the mix, or stretch it across both speakers.
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